[lug] Clustering and GFS

[Alan Robertson]

Harris, James wrote:
>>While I'm open to a number of substitutes, my client is not.  They 
>>specifically asked for Sistina's GFS... and you how clients can be. ;)
>>
>>
> 
> Well, that's too bad.  Just to keep in the back of _your_ open mind, you
> might also look at PVFS (http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/).  I have yet
> to do any clustering, but have been spending the last few weeks gearing up
> for a proof of concept project and have come to the conclusion that PVFS may
> be my choice for the filesystem.  (My biggest requirement is cost-reduction,
> and in my case, PVFS looks like it'll do what I need.)


PVS is very fast, very cheap, but not robust with respect to crashes.  It 
depends on what your needs are.  For scientific clustering in non-critical 
environments, it's the most popular choice.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at unix.sh